Secretary Sibelius acknowledges the initial work of David Blumenthal in reshaping Healy in the USA on a scale that has never been attempted before.

The average senior with chronic conditions sees 14 doctors each year.

Health IT delivers better care when compared with paper based systems.

60% of it vendors have fewer than 200(?) employees. Each is a potential google or Microsoft.

Today is about patients. Electronic records have so much potential.

Today a proposed rule to allow patients to get lab results directly from the labs.

President Obama has also made September 11-16 national Health innovation week.

Us surgeon general – dr Regina Benjamin “it’s your information – you have a right to it”

Dr. Dennis Stasulis – patient

ER doc prescribed medicine that would have reacted with current Meds. Fortunately they were using an emr. They were able to check for drug interactions.

Donna Cryer – liver transplant patient.

Nikolia kirienko – crohns disease sufferer. You have to tell your story – over. And over again. Developing an ipad phr to capture observations from daily life.

Nikolia “We desperately need collaborative medical records”

Donna – I am not tech savvy. We need to use technology to help us. Dennis – we need the data online. It may not be discovered if crumpled up in a pocket.

Now up a panel: todd park, Aneesh Chopra Peter Levin and don berwick.

Don Berwick – the patient is part of the safety system. Who knows more. Docs are the coaches.

Patient centeredness is a critical quality.

People often come with more knowledge than the medical team.

Shared decision making produced better outcomes at lower cost with less waste.

The blue button is magical!

Farzad – introduces leon rodriguez, Ofice of civil rights, HHS Yes consumers have right to access to their health records under hipaa Consumer confidence is paramount as we move forward. We need sensible precautions. A culture of compliance is needed.

Farzad hHS is releasing a model personal privacy Notice that can be used by phr vendors.

Dossia, Microsoft and nomoreclipboard have pledged support for the notice.

Peter levin now talking blue button.

It is infinitely better than what we had. Because we started with nothing. It is not a government program. It is a partnership. 400,000 people are already using the blue button.

VA, Medicare, TriCare have implemented. Many others are doing the same across private industry.

Www.bluebuttondata.org

Markle have created documents to support blue button adoption

Bluebutton is a pledge to give people access to their pen information.